From Marnie's email to GLU:
"Early stages for us, but we like the possibility of GLU and the site in New Zealand straddling the current geographical workings of our collaboration, and for the possibility of a very local, public project connecting to the more roaming but personal site of the magazine. As you may be aware, Christchurch is still in recovery mode from a massive earthquake in 2011, and we think that introducing questions of family and community will resonate there, too."
Sites:
local, public site of recovery Christchurch, NZ (specifically in Manchester Street) (Geographic, civic community, we are (?) speaking to subgroup within this community, feminist, queer, artistic, allys) by constructing visual imagery to show our understanding of their (our?) context, particular celebrations and challenges in coexisting with this specific wider community??
roaming, personal site of GLU magazine (community of contributors and readership, feminist, queer, artistic, we are contributing a geographic experience of long distance family elsewhere-ness through text and image?
Themes/Questions:
Questions of family and community: What constructs a queer family?
Geographical workings of our collaboration: Distance, bonds of friendship, shared cultural background and commitment to share political perspectives, to keep the home fires burning wherever that might be, to share experiences of roaming and conceptual migrations?
Connections, commitment to sharing influences and opinions, necessity of connection for what? Value of shared understanding, parts of selves being recognised and strengthened by the bond. Parts of selves being shared to provide a wider understanding of selves as community of experiences.
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as an example of instagrammable imagery that could lend context to our current selections, XLA
